We’ve all had that weasel on our backs at one time or another
but perhaps we haven’t dealt with it as gracefully
as a Woodpecker in flight.
This predator senses opportunity and attacks for gain
by offering only a platitude and the empty smile
and nothing else in return.
Whereas the badger, noble creature of the forest floor, set in its ways
and looking for all the world as a master of ethnic equality, sees the situation
in black and white and fights back against the weasel, but will probably
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
It’s always tempting to wonder how certain genres or moods will be viewed fifty years in the future, when the generation who shaped a period of time will perhaps have shuffled off into the sunset and those that followed in their wake are left to assess what exactly their music meant to them. It’s a tempting thought filled with the potential to be uplifting and equally, sobering.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Rich McMahon exemplifies the thought that eventually you can and must find your own voice in which to relate tales and stories to. It is an obligation to humanity to be able to look at people in the face and whisper a truth to them and hope that it some small way it opens up a dialogue between souls, or if that fails then at least the artist has opened themselves up to an audience willing to listen.
She rang me in the middle of the night, speech slightly slurred,
scurried, slow drawled, concerned and with heavy patience address.
“I worry about you, I believe you will write yourself to death
one dank and dark December day.”
The hint of concern overflowing and verging on future grief
overwhelmed me briefly and
I paused for thought, after all the hour had not long since departed
three, half a pall bearing team I thought wildly with a wry grin,
I wonder where the other half went, perhaps to make sandwiches, after all
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There is something in Brandi Carlile’s voice that just resonates with an abiding truth, something that burns equally with fire, brimstone and rage and yet could hold the gentlest of whispers of love and concern in the palm of a hand as if it was a butterfly being caressed by a tranquil breeze. That juxtaposition between light and the shadow, one cannot live without the other it seems and in her new release, The Firewatcher’s Daughter; that truth is solid, without fear and as compulsive a listen as you could hope for.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *
There is always a power behind the throne, literature understands that, politics revels in its darkness and music hints at it, perhaps more so in veiled comments and sideways glances in the artistically rounded lyric, but none the less it exists and on paper for Europe’s latest album War Of Kings it is a sound premise to delve into.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Music has no borders, it has certain areas of influence which can undoubtedly be traced back to a particular area or region. Unlike though the political machinations in which many try to claim a piece of land as their own, to demand that one genre of music only exists to serve the purpose of the people that thrive, live or stagnate because of a certain group or variety is to court absurdity.
With the pleasantries over, the argument started in earnest
and February shook its small but well rounded
fist at the other eleven members
of the council and stated his intent to see equality achieved that day.
“I still don’t understand why I cannot at least be thirty days long…!”
He boomed in a winter foamed echoing voice
which shook snow from the steadfast Oak and which drifted in a flurry
on to the table carved from a fallen Willow and in which
August exclaimed a serious dislike for.
The cold of the nights,
The chill of the wind,
Purple lips
Slipping out beautiful sins
The curses at the sky
Replying to its bitter sweet lies
As society hits her with a label
“The local lunatic” or “mentally unstable”
The howls at the moon
Crying what do I do
I’ve been stranded on this world for two decades
I just want my body to disintegrate
Society ate everyone’s brain
The Internet,
Consumerism,
It’s driving us insane
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Ingrid Frøsland was in unique company as she stood on the stage at Studio 2 on Parr Street. Not only did she meet head on the hopes and expectations of the abundant crowd who had come to see her perform but she slotted herself perfectly into a night of female led revolution as part of March’s Strings and Things. She carried the Norwegian flag high alongside Mari Hajem and Nora Konstanse, an image which would not look out of place if the Norwegians had been allowed to lead the storming of the Bastille.